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BIOGRAPHY & TRUE STORIES
DUE 10TH SEPTEMBER
DON’T STOP BELIEVIN’ FATHERHOOD
Olivia Newton-John
RRP $45.00 William McInnes
RRP $29.99
Olivia Newton-John shares her journey, from Melbourne
schoolgirl to international superstar, in this deeply personal
book. Warm, candid and moving, Don’t Stop Believin’ is the
long-awaited memoir of Australia's sweetheart. 
$1 from every book sold will be donated to
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Research Centre.
00 William McInnes, one of Australia’s best-known storytellers
and actors, has turned to a subject that is close to his heart.
Fatherhood is full of memories: the happy, the hilarious, the
sad, bad, and the unexpectedly poignant moments. You will
laugh, you may even cry - but you will recognise yourself and
those you love somewhere in these pages.
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HER MOTHER’S DAUGHTER: A MEMOIR
THE POWER OF HOPE
Nadia Wheatley
RRP $34.99
Kon Karapanagiotidis
RRP $32.99
After her mother’s death, Nadia Wheatley began writing
down the stories her mother had told her about an escape
into a career as an army nurse and as an aid-worker in the
refugee camps of post-war Germany. The finished memoir
is not only a tribute but an investigation of the processes of
memory itself.
The Power of Hope tells the story of how Kon overcame
his traumatic childhood of racism, bullying and loneliness
to create one of Australia’s largest and best-loved human
rights organisations, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre,
which has gone on to transform the lives of thousands of
refugees and has helped build a movement.
GORGEOUS GIRL
TURMOIL
Mary K. Pershall
RRP $34.99
Robyn Williams
RRP $32.99
Robyn Williams, presenter of The Science Show on ABC
Radio, reveals all in Turmoil, a searingly honest and often
blackly funny reflection on his life, friends, the people he
loves and loathes, and a multi-faceted career that includes
over forty years on radio.
DUE 20TH AUGUST
Writer Mary K. Pershall details her heart-rending experience
of raising a child who couldn’t cope with reality, and ends
up in a maximum-security prison convicted of murder. She
brings an insightful perspective to a story that is at once
devastating and uplifting, an d proves that a mother’s love
can provide hope to families in crisis.
DUE 3RD SEPTEMBER
BACK, AFTER THE BREAK
JOURNEYS TO THE
OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD
Osher Gunsberg
RRP $32.99
Sir David Attenborough
RRP $35.00
DUE 28TH AUGUST
From New Guinea to the Pacific Islands and the Northern
Territory of Australia, Sir David Attenborough and his
cameraman were aiming to record not just the wildlife, but
the way of life of some of the indigenous people of these
regions, whose traditions had never been encountered before.
DUE 20TH AUGUST
Emma Adams
RRP $32.99
Robert Wainwright
RRP $32.99
DUE 29TH AUGUST
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UNBREAKABLE THREADS
ROCKY ROAD
Rocky Road is the story of the Darrell Lea family and
vivacious teenage ‘ticket writer’ Valerie Everitt, the creative
and eccentric woman who dominated it. Behind the
irresistible sweetness of their Chocolates lay a family who
made bitter sacrifices to succeed in the candy business.
Osher Gunsberg lives with a mental illness - and he’s come
to terms with it to live an authentic, rich and fulfilling life. A
revealing, raw, funny and heartfelt memoir
from one of Australia’s most well-known
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and well-liked celebrities.
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DUE 29TH AUGUST
Mother of three, psychiatrist Emma Adams travels to
the immigration detention centres in Darwin to observe
conditions for mothers and babies in the centres. What
she doesn’t expect is to return to Canberra consumed by
the idea that she must fight to free an unaccompanied
sixteen-year-old boy from detention and include him in her
Australian family home.
THE PRISON LETTERS OF NELSON MANDALA SMALL FRY
Nelson Mandela, Sahm Venter
RRP $49.95 Lisa Brennan-Jobs
RRP $29.99
Quietly impassioned and eloquent, these letters reveal
both the compassion of a father and the will of a man who
refused to compromise his ethical values in the face of the
most extraordinary human punishment and psychological
abuse. The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela form a new
autobiographical vision. This is a frank, smart and captivating memoir by the
daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Part portrait of
a complex family, part love letter to California in the
seventies and eighties, Small Fry is an enthralling book
by an insightful new literary voice.
DUE 12TH SEPTEMBER